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David Cameron has criticised the timing of a new film about Baroness Thatcher,
saying that it has been made too soon and that it would have been kinder to
wait a few years.

Mr Cameron, who was sent a copy of the film, which had its London premiere
this week, by the film-makers before Christmas, praised the performance of
Meryl Streep as Britain’s first female prime minister in The Iron Lady.

However, he joined a chorus of disapproval from some of Lady Thatcher’s
friends and former colleagues about the decision to use the dementia that
has afflicted her in later